Washington, D. C., has a two-hundred-year-old secret...

THE BOOK OF FATE

In six minutes one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming...

So says Wes Holloway, a once cocky and ambitious presidential aide, about the day that changed his life forever. On that Fourth of July, Wes put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the presidential limousine. By the time the trip came to an end, Wes was permanently disfigured, and Boyle was dead, the victim of a crazed assassin.

Eight years later, Boyle is spotted, alive and well, in Malaysia. In that moment, Wes has the chance to undo the worst day of his life. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back to a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, mysterious facts buried in Masonic history, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson.

But what Wes doesn't realize is that The Book of Fate holds everyone's secrets. Especially the ones worth dying for.

The Book of Fate. What does it say about you?

BRAD MELTZER is the author of five New York Times bestselling thrillers: The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, and The Zero Game. He is also the author of the #1 selling graphic novel Identity Crisis, is relaunching the Justice League of America, and is the co-creator of the critically acclaimed TV series Jack & Bobby. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida. To learn far more interesting things about Brad, you can visit him at www. bradmeltzer. com.

SCOTT BRICK has read the unabridged versions of The Lions Game, Up Country, and Night Fall by Nelson DeMille, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, and Zero Game by Brad Meltzer, and The Ice Limit and The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child for Hachette Audio. I